Clothes-line attachment.



A. F. BELL.

CLOTHES LINE ATTACHMENT.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 24. 1915.

Lwfiwl Patentd De0.12,1916.

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ANDREW r. BELL, or srerLEroN, NEW roan, essIeNon or ONE-SIXTH 'IO ERNESTc. HEI-DLEB, or s'rAPLEroN, NEW roux.

' CLOTHES-LINE ATTACHMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 12, 1 916.

- Application filedfkpril 24, 1916. Serial No. 93,095. i

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ANDnnw F. Br Ln, a

citizen of the United States, and residing at Stapleton, Staten Island,inthe county of Richmond and State of New York, have invented certainnew and useful Improvemen-ts in Clothes-Line Attachments, of

be quickly and easily connected therewith or I detached therefrom.

The invention is fully disclosed the following specification, of whichthe accomp ne ing r w ng t s a part, n wh ch the separate parts of myimprovement are designated by suitable reference characters in each ofthe views, and in which Figure 1 is a side view showing one of myimproved clothesline attachment and showing the method of its use; Fig.2 a section on the line 22 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 a section on the line 33 ofFig. 1; and, Fig. 4: a View indicating the method of using myimprovement in connection with an endless line mounted on pulleys.

In the drawing forming part of this specification, I have shown at a anordinary clothesline and at b one of my attachments. The attachment 1)consists, in the form of construction shown, of a link-shaped bodyportion made of spring metal and approximately rectangular in form orprovided with parallel side members and open at one end and providedwith projecting shank members Z2 having rings or eyes 6 through whichthe line a is passed.

The sides of the end of the link-shaped body member are providedopposite the open end thereof with outwardly curved loop portions [2 andmounted on the sides of the link-shaped body portion is a transverselink or bar member 0 having end eyes or loops 0 through which the sides6 of the link-shaped body portion pass.

In the use of devices of this class, the said devices are mounted on theline a, as indicated, and the articles (Z to be dried, or a part (Zthereof is passed over or around and beneath the part 0 and between saidpart and the bottom Z) of the link-shaped body portion, after which thepart c is forced downwardly into the position shown in full lines Figs.1 and 2, in which said part 0 passes over and beneath the outwardlycurved parts Z2 at the bottom of thesides of'the link-shaped bodyportion and securely clamps the part d of the article d between thebottom 6 of the link-shaped body portion of the device and. said part c,as clearly indicated in Figs. 1 and 2, and in order to detach thearticle cl, all that is necessary is to force the part c of theattachment upwardlyinto theposition indicated i dotted in i g ln Fig. a,I have shown the line a as an .endlesslline mounted on pulleys e ,and itwill e 1e lrs d t a a u of m he proved" attachment or attachments forclotheslines, the rings or eyes b niay ,be .per-

manently formed and the line passed therethrough, or said rings or eyesmay be formed in the operation of connecting the attachment orattachments with the line, and while I have shown and described thepreferred form of my improvement, the invention is not limited to thedetails thereof, as herein shown and described, and changes therein andmodifications thereof may be made, within the scope of the appendedclaims, without departing from the spirit of my invention, orsacrificing its advantages.

It will be noted in Fig. 2 of the drawing that the rings or eyes 6 areangular or diamond-shaped and the top and bottom portions form V-shapedrecesses on the inner sides of said rings or eyes in which the rope aoperates and, in practice, the attachment I) when placed or moved to anydesired point on the line a is moved downwardly toforce said rope withinthe top ll-shaped recesses in the projecting shank members 6 and if thearticle suspended from the attaching device is moved sidewise by wind orotherwise, the tendency would be to slide the attachment blongitudinally of the line, but this is overcome by reason of the factthat the line a, if such movement of the attachment should occur, wouldbe clamped between the top V-shaped recess in one of the member into theposition shown in full lines in Figs. 1 and 2 may be facilitated bygrasping the side members 6 of the attachment 1) by the hand to draw thesame together, after which the said side members may be forced outwardlyto force the link or bar member 0 downwardly but this is not absolutelynecessary as said bar or link member may be forced into the positionshown in full lines in said figure by hand, and it will also beunderstood that a number of the attachments 7) may be connected with aline-and by bringing the projectingshank members 6 close together, asshown in Fig. 1, a large number of said attachments may, be so placedwithout taking up a great amount of room on the llne.

vHaving fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. An article of the class described, comprising a link-shaped bodyportion open at one end and provided with projecting members by means ofwhich said article may be suspended from a line, the side portions. of

the article being provided adjacent to the a closed end thereof withoutwardly curved Copies of this patent may be obtained for parts, and atransverse slide device mounted on the side portions of the attachmentand movable longitudinally thereof.

2. A clothesline attachment, comprising a linkshaped body portion openat one end and provided with projecting members whereby it may beslidably suspended from the line, the side portions of the device beingprovided adjacent to the closed end thereof with outwardly curved parts,and a transverse slide device mounted on the side portions of theattachment and movable longitudinally thereof.

3. A line attachment of the class described comprising a link-shapedbody portion adapted at one end to be slidably suspended from the line,and the sides of which are provided adjacent to the opposite end withoutwardly curved portions, and a transverse slide device mounted on saidsides and operating in connection with said outwardly curved portionsand the adjacent end of the body portion to hold articles in connectionwith said attachments.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed myname in presence of the subscribing witnesses this 22nd day of April,1916.

ANDREW F. BELL.

Witnesses:

C. E. MULREANY, H. E. THOMPSON.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of .Eatents, Washington,D. 0.

